🎶 Vangelis Dead: Oscar-Winning Blade Runner Composer Gone at 79
Chariots of Fire seems to be the other headline.
I haven’t seen one that reads ‘Keyboard Player for Aphrodite’s Child’.
🎵 RIP Klaus
🎶🎵 As a 60s ‘pop song’, 🔗 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound’s Kites has always had a place in my heart.
As a progressive band, 🔗 Gentle Giant sits in my personal pantheon of musical influence.
Just discovered today that the latter were essentially the same band as the former. 🤯
🎶 🎵 Remember Labi Siffre?
I liked his stuff at the time, but never really kept track of him.
This podcast with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt woke me up to everything this man is and stands for.
Well worth a listen.
🎶🎵From You Know Where.
🎶🎼🎵Dave Grohl calls Liam Gallagher “one of the last remaining rock stars”
I like Dave Grohl. I’m enjoying his new book. But that doesn’t mean to say I agree with him on everything.
This is one of those. Vehement disagreement.
David Bowie’s Glam Masterpiece ‘Hunky Dory’ Turns 50
In his book Never A Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded, British music journalist David Hepworth lays out a case for considering 1971 as the most consequential year (from beginning to end) in music.
… which reminded me of 1971 - The Year That 🎵🎼 Music Changed Everything - excellent series.
Revisiting Odessey and Oracle today after listening to the Rockentours talking to Colin Blunstone.
Great Songs.